Tomato Rice – easy summer side dish with Mediterranean flavors: tomatoes, olive oil, garlic and oregano! Remember Potatoes in Tomato Sauce recipe from two years ago? People really liked it and so did I. This time I have for you a similar recipe with rice...

Cajun Potato Salad – flavorful creamy side dish to every summer barbecue! Just like Amish Potato Salad recipe from three years ago, this Cajun Potato Salad is a great side dish to every summer barbecue, whether you grill meat, fish or vegetables. Amish...

Crazy Dough Pretzels – easy homemade pretzels, golden brown, crisp thin crust and chewy interior. Just like from bakery! I owe you an apology! When I first published recipe for Crazy Dough for Everything in 2014, I promised to post other recipes that use...

Easy Peach Turnovers – taste like croissants filled with peach pie filling! Peach season has begun! Peaches are one of my most favorite fruit. I like to eat them raw, but I don’t mind a good Peach Cobbler or a slice of Peach Crumb Bars. Peach Cobbler Peach...

Preparation: 5 min - Cooking: 30 min Strawberry Dump Cake – probably the easiest cake ever! Fresh strawberries, cake mix and butter dumped in a cake pan, baked and served with vanilla ice cream. Yum! Strawberries are in full season. It would be a pity not to use them for delicious treats....

Green Pea Soup (vegetarian) – old English recipe for authentic spring green pea soup with mint. Here is an old English recipe for timeless Green Pea Soup with mint. I believe all pea lovers will appreciate it as much as I do. The recipe is very easy: onion...

Preparation: 3 min Strawberry Banana Greek Yogurt Smoothie – exceptionally creamy smoothie with subtle vanilla flavor. One of the most beautiful parts of spring is abundance of strawberries. Whether eaten fresh with just a little bit of whipped cream, or as a part of a cake...

Almond Lattice Cake (Imotska Torta) – made with thin crust and rich almond filling with amazing taste of oranges, lemon, cinnamon and nutmeg. Almond Lattice Cake – also known as Imotski Cake (named by a small Croatian town of Imotski). It is made with thin...

Grandma’s Marble Pound Cake – my family recipe; dense and rich; with wonderful flavor coming from lemon zest, rum and chocolate! My old fashioned Grandma’s Marble Pound Cake from scratch recipe has been in my family for generations. The cake is dense and...

Black Risotto (Crni rizot) – Croatian seafood and rice dish gets its peculiar color from squid ink! I know, it looks strange. Black colored food is very rare in nature. That’s why people are sceptical when they see Black Risotto for the first time. It is...

Super Moist Banana Bread with yogurt – what is the trick to keeping it very moist? If you tried my Moist Pumpkin Bread you already know what is the trick. Brown sugar, oil Greek yogurt and mashed bananas make the batter moist, but that is not all. After...

Bisquick CREPE Recipe – use ready-made mixture to make perfect crepes every time! Crepes are so delicate, yet they can be so intimidating. You need to make a good batter and manage to create almost paper-thin pastry without breaking it. I hope this Bisquick...

Spaghizza = spaghetti + pizza = pizza style baked spaghetti casserole! Spaghizza recipe caught my eye on the internet about a year ago. It was a guest post from Brigette Shevy on moneysavingmom.com . It is an interesting combination of pizza style baked...

Chocolate Orange Jaffa Cake – extra moist and delicious cake with two unusual ingredients. Chocolate Orange Jaffa Cake is another dessert from my mother’s cookbook. It was both popular and a little bit unusual. There are two not so ordinary things about...

Preparation: 10 min - Cooking: 10 min Instant Pot Oatmeal – no-stir, fluffiest oatmeal, cooked for 10 min in electric pressure cooker. I eat oatmeal almost every day, in various shapes and form: classic way cooked on stovetop, baked in the oven or raw kept overnight in the fridge. A few years...